Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
所以结局就是 婚姻--女孩自由的坟墓
信教信得多管闲事是一种病。剧情好敷衍，结婚生孩子那位的状态好憔悴，导演是不是故意的
从没看过主角能这样一帆风顺的体育片，咱们的这些商业片能不能想清楚想表达什么再开始改编，能不能改掉动不动就在电影里插播mv的坏毛病。而且最重要的一场花游展示戏也拍得太灾难了吧，真的毫无美感啊
什么宗教？太邪了。学生时候的小行为真的好让人悸动
感情细腻到位，女主漂亮，结局略拉。。。不过仍然是我看过的很不错的姬片
所有我以为“嗯 导演该让杰米发火了”的地方 杰米都没发火 天使一样的性格 表达自己的同时不会用火气去伤害别人 玛丽卡真的在想办法了 就是这个解题思路太emm了
It is hard to love bravely.It is even harder when religion mingling with les love in 1991. It is not too young to make a decision but too young to see the truth.
选角选到了梦中情姬，除了风景和女主的脸不知道还能看啥，宗教元素感觉是为黑而黑，同样的宗教主题《违命》就把人物，环境，情节和情欲拍得很丰富，很难不把两个放在一起比
青春电影不等于早恋和叛逆，而在于那些我们回不去的年少时光，和为了一个小目标而全力奋斗的热情。也许是我们高中的运动会和一二九合唱比赛，虽然简单、纯粹，但却是成年的我们再也无法找回的美好。
宗教 挺恐怖的 女主不戴眼镜的几个瞬间真的不是帅t 带上眼镜就好帅 还要 讲道理 我真的不相信能有什么感情n多年过去依旧忘不了。。。
宗教运用得比较廉价。姬仔的呼吸拿捏得不错。
宗教的设计像是个命题 比起违命轻松的多 在两个人感情的处理上非常纯粹自然 这点确实不错
劇情比較平淡，算是比較寫實吧。談起宗教，果然人是觀念的動物。
真的很没意思，一切都很莫名其妙，看了一半弃了
我就请问为什么l g b t q 每次都这么惨？能有哪次是没有男性视角没有ZJ视角没有hwl视角的甜甜rom com吗？
the bathtub scene is the best 太像火吻了
平庸、无能甚至差劲——辛云来饰演的男主碌碌无为，被父母埋汰、被老师无视、被同学歧视。代表了平凡无奇的普罗大众，我们也是淹没在凡尘里的零星砂砾。这是个能引起共鸣的角色，引导普通观众的代入感，产生共情力。 再者，故事聚焦这个由“庸常”逐渐成长为“非凡”的角色转变，恰恰切中“男儿也可不游寻常泳”的影片主题，对凡俗呐喊、向世俗反抗，叛逆精神有了。 哈哈，多余和毛毛姐竟成最大彩蛋（其实导演上部《赤狐书生》里也有客串~）。
三星半；不喜欢宗教色彩的题材，但两人暧昧的气氛还是很令人心动的。
无神论者没法评价剧情，虽然看了不少和宗教有关的但还是没法免疫⋯当然脸很好看化学反应很好，前半段也很让人心动，两位queer主演以后多拍点🙏🏻
里面的很多剧情让我想到了我的前任，可我也对她很坏。
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